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[jeepinmatt]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1288159,taser-funeral.article
Article pretty much speaks for itself.

 

[RatLabGuy]

classy

 

[blazeproc]

I wonder if the idiot cops ever realized that they were in the wrong. Makes me proud to hear stuff like this.

 

[JeepURE]

When deputies approached Russ during the Saturday funeral, he ''went wild'' and spat on the officers, said New Hanover County sheriff's chief deputy Ed McMahon.

oh, so that's where he's been. i thought he died. haven't seen many of the publisher's clearing house commercials in a while

 

[mbalbritton]

oh, so that's where he's been. i thought he died. haven't seen many of the publisher's clearing house commercials in a while

maybe he should have showed up to the funeral bust with a bigass check and balloons.

 

[BRUISER]

I am sorry to say but STUPID COPS

 

[fattypackard]

this is my favorite part....

''Everybody was so scared. We thought it was a drug deal gone bad,'' said Ronnie Simmons, a pallbearer and Russ' brother-in-law. ''We almost dropped the casket.''

 

[upnover]

From what I read there was an agreement that he was going to turn himself in AFTER the funeral. Does that not include taking his father to the cemetary? SOunds as if the cops renigged on the agreement.
Anyway you look at it, it's just a very bad judgment call.

 

[336wheeler]

That's retarded.

 

[jeepinmatt]

this is my favorite part....

''Everybody was so scared. We thought it was a drug deal gone bad,'' said Ronnie Simmons, a pallbearer and Russ' brother-in-law. ''We almost dropped the casket.''

Yeah, that made me chuckle too. Obviously these weren't the most letter of the law folks if that was their first thought. But that still doesn't make things right.

 

[Bobby D.]

It’s a total lack of respect from the sheriff's department towards the people of its county. I hope the sheriff is voted out of office!

 

[awheelterd]

It’s a total lack of respect from the sheriff's department towards the people of its county. I hope the sheriff is voted out of office!

yeah, because im sure the sheriff himself was directly in charge of this arrest, or even knew anything about it.

 

[y2kcrawler]

this is my favorite part....

''Everybody was so scared. We thought it was a drug deal gone bad,'' said Ronnie Simmons, a pallbearer and Russ' brother-in-law. ''We almost dropped the casket.''

I thought so too. So is this incinuating that Russ is a drug dealer/user as well?

 

[Tacoma747]

+1 on thinking it's funny that the brother-in-law thought it was a drug deal gone bad... To even think a drug deal was going down at all at a funeral shows what kind of guy (the arrested) probably was...

Maybe they thought he was going to make a getaway in the car with his dead dad in the back...

 

[Bobby D.]

yeah, because im sure the sheriff himself was directly in charge of this arrest, or even knew anything about it.

No, but he is the one that is responsible for his deputies actions.

 

[shawn]

+1 on thinking it's funny that the brother-in-law thought it was a drug deal gone bad... To even think a drug deal was going down at all at a funeral shows what kind of guy (the arrested) probably was...
Maybe they thought he was going to make a getaway in the car with his dead dad in the back...

Horse shit. People get killed all the time over crap like this. The cops didn't identify themselves and started attacking a guy at a funeral. When others at the funeral attempt to defend the guy, the cops act in retrospect as though it was a hostile situation. A hostile situation they created.

The New Hanover County Sheriff's Department was also involved in killing an unarmed student a couple of years ago by shooting through a closed door during a paramilitary raid. A raid that was organized based on the fact that they believed the kid might have stolen a PS3, and that he had photos on his webpage of himself holding firearms.

Militarization of police tactics only leads to increased conflict with the public. Those conflicts are then used as justification for increased police militarization.

So much for "Protect and Serve".

 

[Bobby D.]

It’s not just our state, but the whole country is on its way to being a police state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y

Well our new president wants our whole country to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful just as strong as and just as well funded as our military.

So should we start expecting this in our homes from a "civilian national security force"?

http://www.vidmax.com/video/1585/Tag_along_on_a_nighttime_raid_after_an_insurgent_financer/

I hope and pray that we won't. Only time will tell.

God bless our good fighting men abroad, but we don't need that kind of "policing"

 

[flatbedtoy]

I loved the part where the Deputys pistol fell out of his holster. Thats was real professional.

 

[NCJeepin]

completely disrespectful to citizens..

 

[Franklin]

Sorry when any dumbass can pass BLET we are left with the idiots that could barely get out of high school. So lets give them a gun, a badge and a fucked up sense of self-importance.

Yes they are some good ones but I have met very few.

 

[fsj80]

The New Hanover County Sheriff's Department was also involved in killing an unarmed student a couple of years ago by shooting through a closed door during a paramilitary raid. A raid that was organized based on the fact that they believed the kid might have stolen a PS3, and that he had photos on his webpage of himself holding firearms.

Actually, a couple of the deputies involved in this recent fiasco were also involved in the one you referenced. Guess they didn't learn their lesson the last time.

 

[Papa_Jon]

All the correct info on this is open to the public . Its not the cops bad ...they where out of line. But the guy was wanted and had alot of run in with the cops in past. They went by his record and not by what was happing in front of there face's.